Generally speaking, if something's been published as .deb exclusively, someone's already repackaged it in AUR too, so I personally never worry about it. Same story with Nix, which has an even larger repository of things in unstable

1. Pretty much any reasonably maintained editor has these features. Even without doing any programming VSCode is a good place to start, otherwise, a lot of desktop environments have their own editors, such as KDE's Kate.
2. You can use a vm, but I believe you can also just run iTunes through Wine. I haven't done so personally, so mileage may vary.
3. I do all of my gaming on linux, with the exceptions of games with an invasive anticheat. Have yet to find something that just plain does not work. Otherwise, performance is on par, or ironically, better in rare cases. Your first stop here should be Protondb and AWACY. With newest stable Proton, or Proton-GE, you will rarely have issues.
4. Expect support for these
5. mpv by itself does the job
6. No comment here, i use cli.
7. No comment again, I use cli. KDE has a batch renamer in the frameworks bundle
8. Your usual shortcuts work as expected, although keep in mind that some are modified for terminal emulators, for example Shift+Ctrl+C instead of Ctrl+C. Otherwise, your desktop environment, or keybind manager of choice will let you change just about anything.
9. Segmentation is mostly an illusion here. There are several major choices: Debian, Arch, Fedora, Nix, Gentoo, and SUSE. Everything else is a derivative of these. Some offer minor changes, some offer more considerable ones. Generally, the differences between Linux distributions is just the package manager. Find what works for you, and look from there.

I suggest you try Endeavour. It's a good all-rounder,, and if you don't like manual installation of Arch, it takes the effort out of that. Otherwise, it's essentially the same. Simple, and just works. The wiki is your friend

The loss of FirefoxOS was quite a shame at the time, but i can’t say i miss the rest. Servo, on the other hand, is all but dead. Cannot wait to see what the future holds for the project

As much as i'd like an electric vehicle at some point, i genuinely dont see myself owning one in the foreseeable future, purely because the charging situation is miserable. My entire city has maybe 10 publicly available single-station chargers

That is absolutely massive. Props to them for continuing to invest into the tools they use

This topic has already been covered to death, and literally everyone in the industry has proven practically every point in this video wrong.

This kind of video is the pinnacle of "source? trust me bro" behavior

I can’t name you a single Ubisoft game that i’ve had any interest in buying, in the last decade

I feel this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but if you want unique wallpapers, consider paying an actual artist, instead of an influencer

There was 0% chance of me paying for it before, and it’s still 0 now. A service is supposed to offer you goods in return for the money. With this service, all i get for paying them increasing obnoxious amounts is a big fuck you.

Google really just forgot that without the people on their platform, YT is worthless

This is borderline extortion, for a feature that should have been available at launch without any requests needed

I tend to agree here. Their PS2 games were genuinely incredible. The PS3 ones are culturally iconic, but a lot of them are just... a cinema camera on wheels

I'm also in Spain, and only use Amazon for things i genuinely cannot find elsewhere, which happens to be like once a year

Pokemon Prism is just about the best Pokemon experience I've had in the last decade

Linux was a toy project without any use. Anything starts as a project without any use.

People want to work on it, and they're putting effort in. If it's not for you, that's great. Just move on then

My favorite kind of update. So many excellent little improvements

I’m relatively new to Nix, but so far i’ve only had to touch the pre-generated hardware configuration file once, to add an extra couple drives on one of my systems.

Still curious about what exactly this offers over nix-generate-config

You really posted that, thinking it’s some kind of a “gotcha”, but it only makes you sound like an entitled chode

I think it’s a nice feature, when it’s explicitly opt-in, and gives you control over what it’s doing. We all know how Google handles that

Took them long enough. The ad networks, and companies like Google, know more about me, than my own immediate family. My preferences, my complete location history, my hardware info, and everything in between. The fact that this is allowed to begin with is absolutely mental

Same issue here. I really like their maps in general, but my local area in OSM is about a decade out of date